A groundbreaking study published in this week’s issue of PNAS by scientists from Israel and Ghana shows that an evolutionarily significant mutation in the human APOL1 gene arises not randomly but more ...

Ever wonder how in the world flamingoes grow into pink adults from white chicks? Why your grandparents buy bags of lime to grow their signature pink hydrangeas? Why are most calico cats female? Why do ...

Chinese researchers recently uncovered molecular evidence supporting Lamarckism—a long-debated theory from the early 19 th century that acquired characteristics can be inherited. The evidence was ...

In a fundamental challenge to more than a century of Darwinian dominance, Chinese scientists have revived a long-dismissed evolutionary theory by proving that acquired traits can shape heredity – no ...

BEIJING -- Chinese researchers have discovered molecular evidence supporting a long-debated evolutionary theory, showing that rice plants can pass on cold tolerance to their offspring -- a phenomenon ...

In just over 24 hours and after at least four separate ballots, 133 cardinals reached a historic consensus beneath the frescoed ceiling of the Sistine Chapel—and the world heard the long-awaited words ...

The suspected, though now disarmed, terrorist was swept onto the next flight back to Paris. We can breathe more easily…or can we? The Lunar and Planetary Science Conference website announced this ...

The announcement from Moscow was blunt: Trofim Denisovich Lysenko had been relieved as director of the Institute of Genetics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. The very name of the man who had been ...

MR. POULTON says it is to be regretted that I have not written anything which can be considered as a reply to his previous letter. But this is exactly what I did. In that letter he merely made the ...